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Of course we don't know for sure, but there's a little precedent. While the Pentium 4 team was churning out ever more power-hungry space heaters, a separate te

by kijin 8y ago

Of course we don't know for sure, but there's a little precedent. While the Pentium 4 team was churning out ever more power-hungry space heaters, a separate team came up with Pentium M. It became the basis for the Core architecture that gave Intel a 10-year monopoly. If anyone knows that having separate teams reinvent their own wheels can have a massive payoff, it's Intel.

chx 8y ago
That was amazing to watch. Remember when Intel predicted in 2000 that by 2011 they will have 10GHz chips? https://web.archive.org/web/20000819011344/http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2601717,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000819011344/http://www.zdnet.... Also, it's funny how the space heating monsters of yesteryear reached 115W and we are still making fun of that today when desktop CPUs can be above 200W https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-9900k-9th-gen-cpu,5847-11.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-9900k-9th... and workstation CPUs will go above double that https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2-2990wx-2950x,5725-13.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-... Admittedly, under normal circumstances most people will never have their CPU consuming more than 65W and that's awesome.